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This instant win game and sweepstakes gives contestants the opportunity to win daily prizes of the Exergen TemporalScanner and a grand prize 46 inch LCD HDTV and $100,000 in Christmas Cash!

The lucky winner of the HDTV is then challenged to enter to win $100,000 by correctly predicting the score of the Christmas Day football game between Green Bay and Chicago.

Contestants can register to enter the Giveaway at www.exergen.com

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So let’s look into lifestyle choices, specifically exercise and anti-aging tips.

Anti Aging Tips

A few forms of exercise can be managed by almost everyone and it has big potential to help with anti-aging.  Although it may not be able to reverse aging, exercise could help by toning up your muscles and giving you a greater degree of flexibility, which can translate into a fuller quality of life.  Exercise can also help keep extra weight off that would otherwise place more stress on joints and organs.  In addition, exercise might have some other benefits by bringing about a healthy release from stress in your life.

It’s key to confer with your physician first before jumping into an exercise routine. Ask the doctor any questions you may have regarding what types of exercise you can safely perform and what she suggests. Also have your doctor’s office conduct any tests first, taking into account your age, which may include a stress EKG.

Benefits of Workout

As you start an exercise program, there are a few things to keep in mind.

1. Begin slowly. Nothing stamps out your desire to exercise like going full-out on the first day and ending up so tender you can scarcely get out of bed in the morning. Moderation is key.

2. Keep it regular. To have long-lasting benefits, you ought to deally do some type of exercise each week forever and a day. If that sounds daunting, just take it week by week until it’s a fixture of your life. Oftentimes you need to remind yourself why you’re performing it and other times you’ll want to do it since it feels so redeeming.

3. Spice it up and make it interesting. There is no “should” do this or do that. If you’re getting any cardiovascular or muscle strengthening benefit from your workout, then just do it. If you find doing the same thing each and every day is tiresome, then alternate your routine. Ride a bike, play tennis, walk, lift some weights, try Pilates, yoga,  dance and workout to Zoomba, or whatever sounds interesting to you.

Exercise can be a huge anti-aging artillery weapon as your workouts can help manage your weight, your self-esteem, your muscle tone and your flexibility. The good news is you can tailor your daily outine to accommodate you and your particular lifestyle. So confer with your physician, put aside excuses, and get moving.

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Reebok and Sportline fitness product lines include digital Pedometers, Fitness Watches and Heart Rate Monitors for women.

Reebok InShape Fitness Watch

The Reebok InShape Fitness Watch allows you to accurately monitory your fitness activity.  The more you move, the more you tone, and this watch can track your every step, kick, jump and skip right from your wrist.  InShape features a Calorie Burn Monitor, Speed, Distance and Step Tracking and accurately tracks Total Time In Motion, while a speed monitor keeps you on pace.

Available in three colors

MSRP: ($79.99)

Reebok InView Pedometer

The Reebok InView Pedometer means the data is only visible to the user.  We all like to share our fitness accomplishments.  But our personal data is well, personal.  The Reebok InView Digital Pedometer is designed to provide great information … but just for you.  The private display shows you what you need to know without showing the world.

Features Include: 

• Digital Step and Distance Accuracy
• Calorie Burn Monitor
• Discreet Privacy Display
• Easy To Use
• Available in Three Colors

MSRP:  ($24.99)

Sportline SnapShot Pedometer

The Sportline SnapShot Pedometer  displays five key fitness data readouts — steps, distance, calories, average pace and total activity time – all at once so there’s no scrolling needed. Powered by Sportline’s Infiniti Motion Sensor, this highly advanced pedometer technology accurately measures your body movements when worn from multiple locations on the body and in multiple orientations. One large, single button is all you need to operate this light yet sturdy device.

The SnapShot clearly displays:

1. Steps Taken

2. Distance Traveled

3. Calories Burned

4. Average Pace/Speed

5. Total Activity Time

MSRP: ($29.99)

The Sportline SnapShot is sold at retailers across the country including Sports Authority, Dick’s Sporting Goods, REI, Fred Meyer, Academy, Meijer, Hibbett’s, and Big 5.

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Pine Bros. Softish Throat Drops

Pine Bros. has a strong following of people who never forgot about them and who have been pining for their return.  As a baby boomer, I can fondly remember these softish drops as a kid.  Both my mom and grandmother would always have some throat drops tucked away in the event someone needed them for a sore throat, a “tickle in their throat” or a horse throat if one of us was coming down with a cold or something.

Softish and Chewy

You might think what’s so special about the Pine Bros. throat drops?  Well no other throat drop is “softish” and their drops are completely delicious!

• Trusted brand since 1870
• Soothing America’s throats for over 140 years
• Made in America
• Convenient and refillable puck.  Perfect for keeping in your desk or toting around in your handbag, purse, backpack, briefcase, pocket or car
• Softish and chewy
• Easy to give to children (over the age of three)
• Only 5 calories a drop!
• Amazing Taste
• Natural Honey or Wild Cherry flavors

Not just a throat drop, it’s an experience!

This cough and cold season, when you think you have some symptoms of colds,  be sure to look for Pine Bros. Throat Drops and get some relief for yourself!

Find them at:  CVS, Kinney Drug, Bartell Drug Stores, Drugstore.com and Vermont Country Stores

For More Information Visit:  Pine Bros.

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On Twitter: @pinebros

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Hello darkness, my old friend

I’ve come to talk with you again

Because a vision softly creeping

Left its seeds while I was sleeping

And the vision that was planted in my brain

Still remains

Within the sound of silence

Wordless Wednesday

Unless you had portable small generators. This was the scene at The Home Depot and just about any other retail store in Connecticut before Hurricane Irene. Although it hit New England as a Tropical Storm, over 600,000 homes were without electrical power and unable to run their appliances. The utility companies in Connecticut are estimating power to be restored around September 7th, 10 days after the storm arrived.

Were you affected at all on the East Coast?

Don’t forget to sign the linky so I can visit you!

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Common wisdom suggests that most people think that stress-causing situations stem from workplace problems. They also think that besides work, thinking about family issues, health issues and finances are the cause of stress. While these situations can individually be stressors, another one that might not be on the radar screen is retirement. Believe me, retirement is right on top of the list now as a cause of experiencing stressful situations!

Many employers are dangling a golden egg to long-time employees as a means of reigning in fiscal spending. While the prospect of ending the daily commute and 9-5 work-time in the cubicle sounds good to me, I’d be foolish to think that retiring will add leisure and free time to my days. Will I actually be able to gaze out at an aqua blue ocean while being fanned by palm leaves? In my wildest dreams will I be able to enjoy a swim-up bar on a cruise ship? In reality, I think my retirement will be quite different.

Baby Boomers like myself have been workerbees since we were 16. Retiring from our positions is going to be a huge lifestyle change. Like anything, any lifestyle changes can be stressful until you’ve fully adjusted. Until you develop new routines, you’ll feel a little lost once you’ve stopped the work routine that you’ve developed and followed for years.

Yet another area expected to change when people retire will be your social support system. Over the last 20 years with my current employer, may of my coworkers have retired one by one. Although we promised each other to keep in touch, get together often and have lunch, scheduling conflicts almost never allowed us to do so. I feel the void in our daily water-cooler chats about family life, entertainment news and sometimes the politics of the moment or crisis de jour. Retiring ends those social ties and connections. What’s left is a void that will have to be filled with new relationships and social connections outside of the job.

Leaving your job opens up a new freedom to be able to do what you always wanted to do while simultaneously forcing you to make big decisions. You may have to decide whether to downsize your home,; move in with the adult children; purchase that sought-after vacation home or become a year-round live aboard boater like Jimmy Buffet. We have friends who moved to a gated community on the South Carolina coast and are absolutely delighted with their choice. These decisions are major life stressors for anyone. Financial issues at any point in one’s lifetime is always of concern, but become amplified as a retiree on a fixed income.

Health-care issues, coping with a spouse or friend’s failing health, becoming disabled, Alzheimer’s disease and nursing home care are also stressful concerns. As a Marketing Director at an assisted living facility, my daughter recently began prompting me to look into a private long-term health-care insurance policy. Since my grandmother lived to be 101, I think she’s concerned I’ll spend-down her inheritance.

Many people of my generation have never expected a perfect alignment of the planets to collide and cause a recession at the exact moment many of us will be retiring. Will we be able to live the lifestyle we always wanted to?

Before you can deal with any stress having to do with retirement issues you’ll need to identify the source of what’s causing it. Limit your exposure to current events news focusing on crime and increase time spent doing things you actually enjoy. Exercise and time spent on your favorite hobbies are great stress relievers.

Seeking professional advice from your accountant, lawyer or financial planner is the best way to educate yourself and get a handle on exactly what’s going on with your investments. Once your questions are answered you’ll find that in and of itself will be a huge relief.

Keep your options flexible and realize that not all decisions you make will be carved in stone. The changes in your day-to-day life may feel uncomfortable in the beginning but will settle once you adjust into a new routine.

Reward yourself for all your years of hard work and try to do at least one thing that has been on your bucket list!

Photo of Boaters, Copyright StockXpert

Republished from TypeAMom.com, Cindi Matthews, Editor 50-Something Moms

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This book helps parents understand and organize the necessary medical and emotional components that accompany their childs surgery.  In an easy to follow time line for events prior to and following a tonsillectomy or adrenoidectomy, the author provides reassuring and accurate guidance that eases the process for the patient and family.

Tonsillectomy & Adenoidectomy

Typically, parents tend to schedule this surgery during their child’s school vacation or breaks over summer and the holiday season to recuperate from what used to be a drawn-out and sore recovery.  Sophisticated advances to tonsil removal now let kids  enjoy more of their free time and school vacation at the beach or lake with family and friends, instead of in pain at home.

Children and Surgery Topics: 

• Uh-Oh, Surgery! Making Your Decision
• Introducing the Topic to Your Child
• Tackling the Subject
• Getting Closer, Getting Ready
• The Day of Surgery – It’s Here
• The Ultimate Preparation List

This is an informative reference source for parents, grandparents or daycare providers to sooth a child’s fears before undergoing surgery for a Tonsillectomy or Adenoidectomy.

ISBN:  978-1-615999-053-5

Available at Amazon

© 2011 C. Matthews

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Do you want to know why we want to sleep more when the weather turns cold?

This has less to do with being tired and more to do with our bodily rhythms and inner workings. It sounds ominous, but it’s actually quite simple. Our bodies know what’s good for it most of the time. There are automatic “cues” in our sleep cycle that it follows to perform certain functions.

I hope everyone enjoyed the Holidays surrounded by family and friends. We’re not quite through the Holiday Season yet ~ at least in my family! Although we enjoyed Christmas Eve with family, Christmas Day was celebrated leisurely and quietly with just my husband and youngest daughter.

My oldest daughter, charming son-in-law and the grandkiddos were up visiting his family in Vermont.  We’ve been taking care of the Grand Dog “Muttley” while they were away, so I’ll be a little sad to see her go home. Although my 11-year old Fat House Cat will be able to reclaim his territory!

Needless to say, with all the various parties I’ve been happily attending, this Baby Boomer is a tad exhausted. If you follow me on Twitter, you know I’m usually a night-owl and up until the wee hours of the morning!

On a good day, I don’t want to rise with the chickens. My feet just don’t hit the ground running like they used to. In the winter months, it gets even trickier. Sleeping all morning can become a habit really fast.

Seasonal depression in winter isn’t all that uncommon, it’s not because we’re lazy.

Depression and the Great Seasonal Sleep Cycle

Here’s an example of why we like to sleep-in come winter:

When the sun streams through the window in the morning, it wakes us up. Even if we decide to cover our heads and go back to sleep, the initial reaction to the sun was to wake. Our circadian rhythms tell us that we wake with the light of the sun.

In the evening, as the sun goes down, we begin to prepare for a time of rest. Well, our bodies do. When darkness falls, everything shuts down for the night so the cells can recharge. We think it is our conscious self that is tired so we go to sleep. But, in fact, our internal clock says that the city called “us” is closing its borders for the night.

There is a set pattern to these things. Now, factor in the location in which we live. I live in New England, and it can get pretty dreary here, especially when snowed in. In winter, the days are shorter and the nights are longer. We see less sunlight and experience SAD. When the sky is darkening, the body prepares for rest. In the morning, the sun rises a little later and we want to also.

The body continues to sleep because it sees no light streaming through the window. Unfortunately we still have to rise at six o’clock in the morning for work. So, something has to get us up and out.

The science behind all of this involves serotonin and melatonin, two neurotransmitters in the brain. Melatonin is produced when we sleep. Sleeping too much produces abnormal levels of melatonin. The more we sleep, the more we want to sleep because of the increase in this neurotransmitter.

During the summer, we experience higher serotonin levels. Serotonin is responsible for our mood. One thing that increases serotonin levels is vitamin D. Vitamin D is produced by skin cells due to sunlight.

When sunlight is in short supply, our serotonin levels fall and we don’t have so much energy or so many good feelings. Some people use devices called dawn simulators to get moving in the morning. They go off on a timed schedule and increase the intensity of their light until it is time for you to wake. The light triggers the body to wake up even though it is still dark outside.

As you see being extra tired during the winter months is actually quite normal. We desire to sleep more in winter because we get less light and serotonin and more melatonin.

I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading up on the benefits of taking serotonin, and have added a SAD light to my Amazon Wish List for my upcoming birthday present. If you or someone you know takes it ~ let me know what your experience has been. Of course, always consult your physician with any questions you may have.

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Light therapy products are used to treat patients suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder, also known as SAD. The common theory is that the absence of natural sunlight plays a role in how we feel. Since seasonal affective disorder occurs mainly in the fall and winter seasons, this seems to hold true.

Here in New England, we’ve certainly received our share of snow for the winter. It’s pretty to look at when it’s all clean and fresh.

When the flakes start flying, I usually cocoon inside, bake a loaf of Irish Soda bread, do cookies with Lil Moomette or some good old Yankee homemade soup ~ maybe get something going in the slow-cooker so the house will smell warm and inviting. Best not to be out on the roads when it’s a sleet or ice mixture going on too!

However, being inside, with the warm and fuzzy feeling only lasts so long until we start getting on eachother’s nerves.

This past weekend the Hubster and I had dinner with two couples who we used to boat with that we’ve known for years. The snowbird couples are leaving to spend the next several months in Florida.

Being out in the sun makes people happy. It’s not just because the weather gets warm because the temperature could be frigid with the sun beaming down. Therapy for Seasonal Affective Disorder may shed some light on the subject.

During the latter part of the year, the days are shorter which means fewer hours of light. With the change in seasons comes a change in the weather. Those shorter days are more cloud covered and colder than the former months. Nature goes into hibernation as everything appears to “die” so it can be reborn again in the spring.

Light Therapy Products

With light therapy, the conditions of the sun are mimicked in an attempt to alleviate depression. The therapy works to deliver a light that is as intense as the sunlight. To do that, the light therapy lamp (device used for light therapy) emit a beam of light with an intensity of 10,000 lux. This is the measure of the light intensity as compared to a normal light bulb.

A person utilizing this therapy will sit in close proximity to the light box for anywhere from fifteen minutes to two hours. The light hits the body particularly the face without staring directly at the light. Light therapy lamp  users reported better moods after only two weeks of the therapy.

There have been no definitive clinical trials conducted with light therapy to measure its effectiveness on seasonal affective disorder. People who utilize it have done so with the advice of medical personnel. Only they can determine if the situation will benefit from the use of a light therapy lamp.

The light box has been used by people suffering from clinical depression. It has indication that their symptoms may lessen with use. People with sleep rhythm problems have benefited from light boxes as well.

Light therapy has other indications besides seasonal affective disorder. It is a treatment for acne and other skin disorders. The artificial ultraviolet light of a light box destroys the bacteria that cause acne and other skin disorders.

The artificial ultraviolet rays don’t damage skin like normal sunlight. The rays are not as strong. For use with patients suffering from seasonal affective disorder, this was a concern of the process. Sitting in front of a light that emits ultraviolet radiation on a daily basis would help the depression at the cost of damaging the skin.  Seasonal Affective Disorder lamps that are  used for that treatment emit no ultraviolet radiation.

I’ll be adding a light therapy lamp to my Wish List as it’s about as close as I’m going to get to go on a winter vacation this year!

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Are you aware that the holiday season is often difficult for some people? In fact, the incidence of suicide and depression increase during the holiday season. It could be physiological. Find out more about seasonal affective disorder and how light therapy can help.

Old Man Winter will be knocking on our door ~ in fact, snow is predicted in some areas of Connecticut for tomorrow. While I really am enamoured of New England, winter sports were never my forte. I love the thought of skiing, ski lodges, sleigh rides and everything Trapp Family but I’m more the type to enjoy the coziness of the ski lodge fire with a hot toddy and watch from the comfort of the inn while everyone glides down the slopes.

Seasonal Depression

Seasonal Affective Disorder known as SAD,  is a subgroup of depression that involves a person suffering from depressive symptoms at a certain time of year. Usually, the depression occurs during the fall and winter. For some unknown reason, people begin to experience depression.

People suffering from seasonal affective disorder chalk it all up to the shorter days and longer nights. We underestimate the effect that lack of sunlight has on us. When the winter season passes, so does the depression and they get back to a normal life without ever realizing that they were depressed in the first place.

The problem is that seasonal affective disorder can be so severe that suicide is one possible outcome. Other symptoms include: overeating, depression, anxiety, weight gain, feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, lack of concentration, and lethargy. Some of the symptoms build on each other. For instance, overeating can be caused by depression. As a result of the weight gain, the sufferer spins out of control into helplessness and anxiety.

On top of all this, there is a condition called reverse seasonal affective disorder. Instead of experiencing depressive symptoms during the fall and winter, it is experienced during the spring and summer. The symptoms are opposite to those experienced in the latter part of the year.

One theory about seasonal affective disorder is that the lack of proper sunlight contributes to the condition. Like I said before, we underestimate how much we need natural sunlight. Sunlight brightens the mood. We get a boost from spending even fifteen minutes in the sun each day.

During the winter months, the days are shorter. Fewer sunlit days due to the weather patterns makes us want to stay in. Some people are “bummed” when the weather isn’t sunny all the time.

In an effort to reduce the symptoms of seasonal affective disorder, clinicians are trying several techniques, one of which is SAD light therapy. Anti-depressive medications are often prescribed to lessen the symptoms of seasonal affective disorder. Psychologists use psychotherapy to try and use positive reinforcement to change thought patterns.

If you feel that you display any of the symptoms and signs of seasonal affective disorder, see a physician as soon as possible. It could be nothing or something quite important. Have you or anyone else noticed a marked change in your behavior at certain times of the year for several years? People with a relative diagnosed with seasonal affective disorder are more likely to be affected by it as well.

In either case, the help of a strong support system assists with handling the condition. No one wants to feel bad and without hope. Lean on those around you to fight this disorder.

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